Hello my name is Gabriela and I am colombian and guatemalan. I was born here in the United States but my first language was spanish. I was raised in a spanish environment, especially because of my family and where we normally hung out. Everyone normally spoke spanish to one another so I always spoke spanish, it was like an instinct. I know how to read and write spanish the same way when I read and write in english. At work I normally speak english, but when I see a spanish person in trouble speaking I will end up speaking in spanish to them only because I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable. I know how that feels sometimes because when I was younger I didn't really understand english, i was fluent in spanish so when my teachers spoke to me I felt like I was in a different planet. With my friends I speak both english and spanish to them, they know that sometimes till this day I forget words and will end up saying it english.
I think language happens by surroundings and instinct. Its something that anyone can pick up or feel. Like if you hurt yourself and all of a sudden you say ow but you didnt know what that word meant. Learning a new language is like learning the first language. You hear it, say it and learn it. When someone is dedicated to learning a new language they will end up learning it. What I wonder about language is how it all originate or how that language ended up with an accent.
